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It’s the Republican National Convention week, or as pundits on the right call it — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and whatever other major holiday you want to thrown in there. We break it all down: the pluses, the minus, the hits and the misses. And we make some predictions for the next couple of months. As you’re hear, we recorded this show on Zoom in front of an audience of our beloved Ricochet members. We’ll be doing a few more of these on Zoom before the election, so if you’d like to participate, join us!
Music from this week’s show: Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones
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She’s been living in france way too long, and has “gone native.”
I really don’t see how you can expect conservatism or libertarianism to sell or even work under these conditions:
Now she’s subtweeting Joe Walsh. She could go on his new radio show. lol
And Turkey before that, right? When did she last live in the US?
I think someone said it’s been at least 20 years now.
Just the name puts me off. As they sometimes say on Monty Python, “Oh what a giveaway!” Couldn’t she change it to NewYorkski or Philadelphiaski or something?
And very safe
I (humbly) consider myself to have been ahead of the curve when it comes to Claire Berlinski. While she was still being invited on podcasts and commenting on Ricochet, I remember thinking occasionally “she really doesn’t know what she is talking about” or “that’s an odd viewpoint for someone theoretically a conservative or at least lucid”. So it seems those early signs were symptoms of a downward spiral? I stopped listening or reading her long ago, so this is based on recent comments by others. Lots of cats, right?
Nothing wrong with cats. But living in Europe or even Asia for 20 years or more, while trying to opine lucidly on US politics etc, is…. problematic?
This is some brutal criticism of people that think like Berlinsky, including the ones that aren’t totally whacked out. This gets over my head, but even if you are a neocon or anything related to that it makes no sense to try to get Biden into office. @JedBabbin who is always excellent. The file is 12 minutes, but the interview is 10 minutes total.
At the end he makes the perfect observation “This is a cry for relevance.” Their lifestyles and ego depend on a certain view of global initiatives and how government is dysfunctional or not. They just can’t bear to look at the reality of why things have changed so much. If the tea party actually worked, it would be a different situation, but even then most of those guys are against that.
https://player.fm/series/the-john-batchelor-show-96788/ep-389-republican-smart-people-for-biden-have-nowhere-to-go-so-they-advertise-in-the-wsj-jedbabbin-american-spectator-jedbabbin-washingtontimes
@blueyeti —-> guest request
@blueyeti
Now she just effectively warned everyone that she’s going to go all out total cat lady until the day after the election. Her recommendation is to mute her if you can’t handle it. I think there is some self-awareness still available. lol
https://wabcradio.com/episode/389-persecution-of-the-hero-flynn-and-examination-of-the-hero-mccain-leesmithdc/
The first half is more about the Obama deep state and then the second half is about McCain.
Further magnifying my shame for voting for McCain (not that I had a practical alternative).
I voted against Obama. Unfortunately, McCain was the closest thing to a viable alternative.